Resume

Daniel J. Schneider

@schneidan | facebook.com/schneidan | schneidan.com

Skills

New Media Journalism Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including grammar and journalistic style, as well as technical writing and editing. Thorough familiarity with AP style, Denver Post style, and operating knowledge of newsroom procedures and workflows for print, online, social and mobile. Proficient with content management systems including MediaWiki, phpBB, Joomla! and WordPress, as well as proprietary systems. Extensive knowledge of S.E.O. and S.M.O. principles and best practices for breaking and online news environments. Expert community management skills and experience. Breaking news reporting and photography.

Social, Mobile and Enterprise Proven competency with news promotion, reader engagement, sourcing and verifying through social networks. Well-developed online presence including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, and others. Adept at use of mobile systems for newsgathering, publication and dissemination. Demonstrated track record developing and executing effective and award-winning online presentation of complex stories and projects while on deadline.

Experience

Publish breaking news online; post updates and maintain Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Google+ presence; design and implement updates and changes to website pages and functionality using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript and jQuery, PHP, and Python; monitor Twitter and other networks for breaking news and use social media to help reporters source and verify stories; educate and train newsroom personnel on new media journalism tools; work with editors, programmers, designers and reporters to prepare special online presentations; WordPress and Django setup, development and maintenance; community management; breaking news reporting, editing and photography; blogging and data reporting as needed.

Create 24-page departmental magazine including: Determine issue content, design layout, research and write stories, find and work with writers for additional content, solicit and take in content from student organizations and other department sources, edit all content for publication, some advertising work, photography and photo editing, graphics creation, generation of final documents for both web and print publication using Adobe Creative Suite.